Night-Shift Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT)

1017 Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hazleton; Hazleton (Luzerne County); On-site; USD 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

Lehigh Valley Health Network seeks a Medical Laboratory Technician to join the Night Shift at the Hazleton site. The role performs high to waived complexity tests, using advanced instruments and procedures to produce accurate provider-ready results.

You will verify results, monitor quality control, and assist in training new staff. A CLIA-qualified Associate's Degree plus internship is required, with flexibility in scheduling across a hospital lab.

Qualifications

• Associate's Degree as a medical laboratory technician or Specialized Diploma must meet CLIA grandfathered MLT regulations.
• Less than 1 year of experience and a clinical laboratory internship.
• Demonstrated technical skills.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific documents.
• Ability to read, understand, and speak basic English.
• Demonstrated ability to use/learn the computer system, word processing, e-mail, and applicable software programs.
• Demonstrated dependability/flexibility in meeting scheduling needs of the department, unit, and hospital.
• Ability to apply common mathematical skills.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret a variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Responsibilities

• Performs high, moderate, or waived laboratory testing in the assigned testing department.
• Utilizes advanced clinical laboratory instrumentation and methodologies according to departmental standard operating procedures.
• Confirms, verifies, and reports the results of this testing independently exercising broad independent judgment.
• Monitors results for reasonableness and critical values.
• Conducts and evaluates established quality control per departmental standard operating procedures.
• Troubleshoots and reports to management any unacceptable quality control before reporting patient results.
• Performs required departmental preventative maintenance per standard operating procedures.
• Provides clinical orientation and/or training of new employees/students.

Skills

Analytical skills

English (reading/writing)

Technical skills

Interpret scientific documents

Computer skills

Education

Associate's Degree in Medical Laboratory Technology

Job description

Lehigh Valley Health Network seeks a Medical Laboratory Technician to join the Night Shift at the Hazleton site. The role performs high to waived complexity tests, using advanced instruments and procedures to produce accurate provider-ready results.

You will verify results, monitor quality control, and assist in training new staff. A CLIA-qualified Associate's Degree plus internship is required, with flexibility in scheduling across a hospital lab.